COMPUSA

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i went to the compusa website to order a fan they had displayed that said was hard to get and went to see if it was available and its not in store....then why have it advertised! then i e-mail them and they say 2-4 weeks til they get more...they said its hard to get...no doubt even they can't get it! non-know-how-to-advertise-asses
 
The funny thing is that the promise of having a 'brick and mortar' presence is that you could provide people with a chance to play with the product they are interested in buying and then have a knowledgable sales person provide you with information regarding the product.

You go into CompUSA and there is maybe two salespeople who aren't manning a register or hanging out at customer service. Whenever you ask them a question, they always seem to look out to the horizon for some magical 'other' person who can help you. When that mysteriuous prancing german is no where to be found, they reluctantly take you to the product only to read the technical information that is provided on the little card for them.

On top of all that, their prices are absolutely rediculous. I had a laptop HD fail and CompUSA wanted $200 for some no name 20GB 'thing' that did not even list the RPM on the side of the box. I go to Newegg.com(thank god they exist) and found a recent 30GB introduction by Fujitsu for $99.

You have to be kidding me. Most of the salespeople no absolutely nothing and those that do are usually already engaged with another customer. Their prices are consistently double what one could find online (or even Circuit City).

It is clear...CompUSA has failed!
 
I wish my town was bigger and had more stores and lower prices. I don't have a credit card so I can't ever get anything online unless I wanna trust a money order with the Postal Service :|

My Rig:
AthlonXP 2000+ 1.677ghz
GeForce Verto FX5200 128mb DDR
Maxtor 7200RPM 80GB, Stock 40gb
Kingston 384MB DDR
Cendyne 52x24x52 CD-RW
Lite-On 4x DVD-RW
Go EMachines...🙁
 
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I had a guy at the counter that has the ram, mobo's, and cpu's at comp usa. Some guy was looking for ram for a P3 733. The guy at the counter said that he needed PC100 memory. I was picking up some ram for a friend of the family since compusa had a sale on the ram I needed and I was only in town for the rest of that day. Over hearing this *suggestion* for ram on that system I piped up and said it should use PC133 ram. The guy behind the counter said that no PIII below 1Ghz had a 133Mhz bus. This guy was dead serious in his dumba$$ belief. So I asked him well then what multiplier does it use if it has a 100fsb? I about dropped on the floor laughing my A$$ off when he told me a 7.3 muliplier. Sadily the other customer bought the PC100 ram because the dipsh|t behind the counter told him that was the right type.

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